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lERS' Guide to the 

Museum 



THE STATE HISTORICAL 
SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN 

(trustee of the state) 




MADISON 

Published by the Society 

November. luii 



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Handbook No. 6 

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Teachers' Guide 



Personages of National and Local 

Prominence Represented bv 

Specimens in the Museum 

of the State Historical 

Society 

This guide to certain articles of spe- 
cial historical interest on exhibition in 
the Museum is intended to assist teach- 
ers, school children, women's study 
clubs, and other visitors to its halls, to a 
knowledge of some of the contents of its 
collections and their availability for 
study purposes. 

The specimens herein listed are se- 
lected from among many thousands ac- 
quired by the Society during the past 
fifty years of the ]\ruseum's existence. 
The entries are in alphabetical order — 
the names of the historical personages 
who are represented by specimens in the 

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Museum being arranged as a matter of 
convenience under two divisions. 

AbDreviations in Italics indicate the 
hall or room in which each specimen is 
at present located: 8. H., South Hall; 
E. H., East Hall; M. H. R., Military His- 
tory Room; /. H. R.. Indian History 
Room; C. K., Colonial Kitchen; and A. 
It., Adams Room. P. indicates that a 
portrait of the person named can be 
found in the Museum, 

It is desired that the relatives of other 
men and women who have taken a prom- 
inent part in the State or the Nation's 
history, place in the care of the Museum 
any valuable or interesting articles 
which they now possess. These will in 
this manner be properly safe-guarded 
against loss by fire, theft, or other causes, 
and become available to all Wisconsin 
citizens. 



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Niuional Celebrities 

Maj. Gex. N. p. Banks. Note written 
by General Banks to Colonel Ruggles on 
the day preceding the battle of Cedar 
Mountain, Va., August 8, 1862. — M. H. R. 

Black Kettle. Pipe formerly the 
property of this famous Cheyenne chief 
and warrior, whose village on Sand 
Creek, Colorado, was in 1864 attacked 
and destroyed by a force of militia, and 
a large number of innocent men, women, 
and children massacred. Black Kettle 
was later killed in an attack by United 
States troops under Gen. P. H. Sheridan, 
at his village on the Washita. — I. H. R. 

Daniel Boone, Powder-horn, bear- 
ing the initials of his brother', Israel 
Boone, from whom he received it. A 
silver coat-button bearing the monogram- 
"D. B." The bake-kettle used by him 
while exploring the Kentucky wilderness 
(1759-1795). He presented this kettle 
as a keepsake to his friend and fellow- 
frontiersman. Gen. Simon Kenton. There 
is also a cast of Boone's skull, made at 
Frankfort, Ky., in 1845.— M. H. R. 

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joiix Bhowx. Wrought-iron fire-dogs 
from the birthplace of the famous anti- 
slavery agitator at Torrington, Conn. 
One of the pikes provided by him for the 
arming of negroes at Harper's Ferry, 
Va., October, 1859. Presented by Brown's 
lieutenant, John E. Cook, to Senator D. W. 
Voorhees of Indiana. — M. H. R. 

President Groveir Cleveland. Porce- 
lain plate from his White House dinner 
set. Presented to the Museum by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt. — A. R. 

Fatiikk Joseph Damiex. Crucifix, ros- 
ary, holy water shell, medical book, car- 
penter's rule, and other articles used by 
him in the leper colony at Kalawao, Mo- 
lokai, Hawaiian Islands. Father Damien 
was born in 1841 at Louvain, Belgium. 
Being educated as a Catholic priest, he 
was sent to the South Seas as a mission- 
^ary in 1873. Settling on the Island of 
Molokai, he devoted the remainder of 
his life to the lepers. He himself died 
of leprosy in 1889. His successor is 
Brother Joseph Dutto'n, a former resi- 
dent of Wisconsin. — 8. H. 

Jefferson Davis. Negro slave-whip 
obtained by a Wisconsin soldier from his 
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plantation at Grand Gulf, near Vicks- 
burg, Miss. He came to Wisconsin in 
1828 as a lieutenant in the First United 
States Infantry, being stationed at Fort 
Winnebago and then at Fort Crawford. 
He participated in the Black Hawk War 
in 1832, and left the State in 1833.— 
il/. H. R. 

Col. Ei'iiKAKM E. Ellsworth. Pencil 
portrait sketch of himself made in 1858, 
when he was visiting Madison, and pre- 
sented by him to N. B. Van Slyke. When 
at Alexandria, Va., with his regiment, on 
May 24, 1861, this promising young soldier 
ascended to the roof of a hotel and tore 
down a Confederate flag. On his way 
down stairs he was shot and killed by 
Jackson, the proprietor of the hotel, who 
was himself immediately killed by one 
of Ellsworth's men. — M. H. R. 

Prftsident Ja^vees a. Garfield. Porce- 
lain plate from the dinner set in use at 
the White House during his administra- 
tion. Presented by President Roosevelt. 
—A. R. 

PREsinEXT Ulysses S. Grant. One of 
the chairs used at meetings of his cabi- 
net; it was purchased during his fir'st 

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term as president and was in use in the 
White House until 1902, when new fur- 
niture was purchased. Presented by 
President Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne. 
Two porcelain plates from the White 
House dinner' set of President Grant. 
Pass given by him to Dayton Locke, 
April 19, 1865.—^. H., A. R., M, H. R. 

President Benjamin Harrison. Por- 
celain plate from his White House din- 
ner set. Presented by President Roose- 
velt.— A. R. 

President Rutherford B. Hayes. 
Two porcelain plates from his White 
House dinner set. Presented by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt.^A. R. 

Stephen Hopkins. Two Lowestoft- 
ware mugs formerly used by him. He 
was governor of Rhode Island (1755- 
68), the first chancellor of Brown Uni- 
versity, a signer of the Declaration of 
Independence (1776), and a member of 
the Continental Congress. — C. K. 

Gen. Sam. Houston. Small heart cut 
by General Houston from a piece of pine 
wood and presented by him to Mrs. 
Susan J. Spiller, while a guest at her 
home at Danville, Tex., in 1852. In 1836 

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Houston secured the independence of 
Texas by conquest from Mexico, and was 
elected president of the Texan republic, 
which in 1845 was admitted into the 
Union.— 3f. H. R. 

Captaix Jack (Kixtpuash). Iron 
staple said to have been one of a number 
used in securing this chief, the leader of 
the Modoc War of 1872-73, when a pris- 
oner at Fort Klamath, Oregon. He and 
five other leaders were hanged in Octo- 
ber, 1873, for treacherously assassinating 
the peace commissioners who had been 
sent to treat with the Modoc renegades. 
—M. H. R. 

CoL. C. R. Jexmsox ("Jayhawker"). 
Confederate flag of domestic make, cap- 
tured by him when in command of the 
First Kansas Cavalry, November 26, 1861. 
Accompanying the flag is a note from 
Jennison, written on the back of one of 
his famous bloodthirsty proclamations. — 
M. H. R. 

Joiix Paul Joxes. Button from the 
coat of this celebrated naval commander 
of the War of the Revolution.— ikf. H. R. 

Preside XT ABRAiiA:\r Lixcolx. Auto- 
graph card dated July 27, 1863, request- 
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ing Secretary of War Stanton to have 
an interview witli Ex-Gov. N. G. Ordway 
of New Hampshire. Plate from the din- 
ner set in use at the White House dur- 
ing his administration. Photograph of 
his home in Springfield, in 1844. Play 
bill of Ford's Theatre, for April 14, 1865, 
the night when President Lincoln was 
assassinated.— -M". H. R., A. R., P. 

Feancisco Pizaebo. Engraved silver 
plate bearing the coat of arms of the con- 
queror of Peru. He was made governor 
of Peru in 1528, and began his conquest 
in 1531. In 1532 he captured by treach- 
ery the Inca leader, Atahualpa, whom he 
killed despite the ransom, estimated at 
$17,500,000. He rapidly reduced the 
country to subjection. Cuzco was occu- 
pied in 1533, and Lima in 1535. In the 
latter year the title of Marquis of Fran- 
cisco was bestowed on him by Charles 
V. of Spain. He was killed in 1541. — 
M. H. R. 

Capt. Simeon Sampson. Small leather 
trunk in which were kept the papers of 
Captain Sampson, the first naval com- 
mander appointed in the Continental 
service by the Provincial Congress of 

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Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the 
War of the Revolution. Mirror pur- 
chased by him in France during this 
period.— 3f. H. R., G. E. 

Roger Sherman. Chair, being a part 
of the parlor furniture of his home at 
New Milford, Conn. He was one of the 
members of the committee appointed' by 
the Colonial Congress in 1776 to draft 
the' Declaration of Independence. — E. H. 

Gex. William Tecumseh Sherman, 
Message in pencil, which he caused to be 
signalled to Admiral Dahlgren, asking 
the co-operation of his fleet in the cap- 
ture of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee 
River, near Savannah, Ga., December 13, 
1864. Semaphore flag with which it was 
signalled by Lieut. William Ware. — 
M. H. R. 

Sitting Bull. War club presented by 
this noted Sioux chief to a Catholic 
priest, previous to the year 1884, with 
the information that it had been used 
in the Custer massacre on the Little Big- 
horn, June 25, 1876.— 7. H. R. 

President Zachary Taylor. Pipe pre- 
sented to him when commandant (1829- 
36) at Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien) 
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by the noted Wisconsin Winnebago chief 
Dekau-ry (Sha-chip-ka-ka), also known 
as Old Grey-headed Decbrah, White War 
Eagle, and by other names. — I. H. R., P. 

Tecumseh. Pair of epaulettes worn 
by this great Shawnee chief in the War 
of 1812-15. He was killed by the Ameri- 
cans at the Battle of the Thames, Canada, 
on October 5, 1813.— M. H. R. 

Geoege Washington. Telescope used 
by him. It was found on one of the Brit- 
ish ships captured by Commodore John 
Barry during the War of the Revolution, 
and by him presented to General Wash- 
ington.— If. H. R., P. 

Daniel Webster. Carriage purchased 
in London, in 1808, by Stephen White of 
Boston, and used by him for several year's. 
It then passed into the hands of the 
great American statesman. Martin Van 
Buren, Henry Clay, Silas Wright, Char- 
lotte Cushman, Dean Richmond, Erastus 
Corning, and many other notables have 
ridden in it. It is an admirable speci- 
men of the better class of family car- 
riages in use in England and America 
ca century ago. — E. H. 



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\^'isconsin Celebrities 

Joiix Fraxcis Appleby. Twine-knot- 
ting hook invented by him in 1858, on a 
farm in Walworth County. Twine bind- 
ers were manufactured by him and his 
associates, Charles H. Parker and Gus- 
tavus Stone, at Beloit, in the summer of 
1878. In that year 115 Appleby binders 
were sold and successfully operated in 
Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, 
Iowa, and Wisconsin. — S. H. 

Charles C. P. Arxdt. Vest worn by 
him as a member of the Legislative Coun- 
cil of Wisconsin Territory when he was 
shot and killed by James R. Vineyard in 
the council chamber at Madison, in 1842. 
Vineyard was expelled from the council 
but was acquitted of manslaughter. 
Charles Dickens, the novelist, tells tlie 
story of the shooting in his American 
Xotes. — N. H. 

LiEUT.-CoL. Joseph Bailey. Punch bowl 
and sword presented to this officer of the 
Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry by Rear-Ad- 
miral Porter and staff for saving the 
Union fleet of gunboats from capture by 

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the Confederates during the Red River 
expedition, m Arkansas, May, 1864. The 
fleet was prevented from descending the 
river by a low stage of water and was 
threatened with destruction by the enemy 
on the banks. Bailey, who was serving 
on General Franklin's staff as chief en- 
gineer, devised and constructed a system 
of dams which raised the water to a 
sufficient height; and then, an opening 
being suddenly made, the vessels escaped 
through the chute. For this feat Bailey 
was brevetted brigadier-general, Nov, 10, 
1864.— M. H. R. 

Rev. Johannes Bading. Song book 
used by him when pastor of St. Jacob's 
Lutheran church at Theresa, Dodge 
County, 1854-60. Mr. Bading came to 
Wisconsin from Rixdorf, near Berlin, 
Germany, in 1853, his first church being 
in Calumet Township, Calumet County. 
His next pastorate was at Theresa, after 
which he was in charge of St. Mark's 
church at Watertown, 1860-68. In 1863 
he went to Europe for the purpose of 
collecting funds for a Lutheran college at 
"Watertown. In the course of his trip he 
visited the royal courts of Prussia, Han- 



over, and Russia, and returned to the 
United States in 1864 with $15,000. 
Northwestern University was built in 
1865, and he served as its president from 
that year till 1909.— i^. H. 

Alvan E. Bovay. Carpet bag in which 
the "founder of the Republican Party" 
carried his papers to a meeting held at 
Hipon on February 28, 1854, at which he 
suggested the name "Republican" for the 
new political party then being organized. 
— A^ H. 

The Buffalo. Peace-pipe "presented by 
Tay-che-gwi-au-nee for hi's father, the 
Buffalo, a principal Chippewa chief, on 
the south shore of Lake Superior, in 
council at Port Winnebago, February 12, 
1844." On tne bowl is carved the old 
chief's personal totem, the buffalo. — I. 
H. R. 

Satteklee Clark. Copy of the Works 
of Horace, formerly in his library at 
Horicon. Clark came to Wisconsin in 
1828; was a sutler at Fort Winnebago, 
1834-43; served two years in the State 
assembly and twelve in the State senate. 
He was one of those who conducted Yel- 
low Thunder and other Winnebago chiefs 

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on a visit to Washington in 1837. Dur- 
ing this visit the treaty was signed by 
whicli the Winnebago ceded to the govern- 
ment the last of their lands in Wiscon- 
sin.—^. H., P. 

Cai't. Thomas J. Cka.m. Section of 
trunk of a pine tree from the shore of 
Trout Lake, in Vilas County, bearing a 
blaze upon which appears the name of 
Captain Cram, the U, S. engineer who 
surveyed the Wisconsin-Michigan bound- 
ary, and of his assistant, Douglas 
Houghton, name-giver for Houghton, 
Mich. Dated August 11, 1841.—^. H. 

Gov. Nelsox Dewey. Gold pen used by 
him, his diary, and a Dutch clock from 
his home at Cassville, He was the first 
State governor of Wisconsin, serving 
from 1848 to 1852.— 2\'. H., E. H. 

Old Grey-headed Decorah (Sha-chip- 
ka-ka), see also under Zachary Taylor. 
A prominent Winnebago chief. He fought 
under the British General Proctor at 
Sandusky (Aug. 2, 1813), and at the 
battle of the Thames (Oct. 5, 1813). After 
1793 he moved his village from the shore 
of Lake Puckaway to a point on the Wis- 
consin River, near Portage, He gave as- 

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siirance to General Atkinson during the 
Winnebago War scare, in 1827, of the 
peaceable intentions of his people. He 
died in 1S36, and was buried at Peten 
Well, in Caledonia Township, Columbia 
County. He was the most noted and best 
of the Wisconsin Winnebago chiefs of 
ills time. 

Gov. Hknry Dodgk. Chapeau and uni- 
form coat worn by him while commanding 
a regiment of U. S. Dragoons against the 
Indian tribes at the headwaters of the 
Platte and Arkansas rivers in 1814-15. 
Rustic chair owned and used by him. 
He came to Wisconsin in 1827; took a 
prominent part in subduing the Winne- 
bago uprising of that year, and in the 
Black Hawk War in 1832; was the first 
territorial governor of Wisconsin, 1836- 
41; delegate to Congress, 1841-45; again 
territorial governor, 1845-48; and United 
States senator, 1848-57. Died at Burling- 
ton, Iowa, June 19, 1867.— M. H. R., 
E. H., P. 

Sex. J. R. Doolittle. Gold-headed cane 
presented to him at the Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Fair held at Washington, D. C, 
July 10, 1866. He served as Federal sen- 

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ator from Wisconsin from 1857 to 1861, 
and from 1863 to 1867.— i^. H. 

Gov. James D. Doty, Council pipe pre- 
sented to him by Col. Henry Leavenworth 
at Camp Cold Water', an encampment of 
the Fifth United States Infantry on the 
Mississippi River, above the mouth of 
the St. Peters River, on July 20, 1820. 
Doty was accompanying an expedition 
under Gov. Lewis Cass, in the capacity 
of official secretary. They were engaged 
in collecting information concerning the 
Indians of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 
Michigan. Colonel Leavenworth was then 
beginning the erection of Fort Snelling. 
The pipe was presented to him during a 
council with the Chippewa Indians. Doty 
served as governor of Wisconsin Terri- 
tory, 1841-44.— 7. H. R., P. 

Matthew G. Fitch. Powder-horn, 
charger, and shot-pouch worn by him 
while a lieutenant in Col. Henry Dodge's 
command of Wisconsin rangers during 
the Black Hawk War, 1832.— M. H. R. 

Augustin Grigxox. Silver -snuff-box, 
ivory-headed cane, powder-horn, and 
charger, and an epaulette (with paper 
case) worn by him in the British service 

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in Wisconsin, in the AVar of 1812-15. Col- 
lection of articles including weapons, 
game traps, articles of dress, weighing 
scales, and various goods employed in the 
Indian trade at the old Grignon-Porlier 
trading post at Butte des Morts, in Win- 
nebago County. Grignon was a promi- 
nent fur-trader and a grandson of Charles 
de Langlade. He was born at Green Bay, 
June 27, 1780. His narrative of "Seventy- 
two Years' Recollections of Wisconsin" 
is published in Wisconsin Historical Col- 
lections, vol. iii. He died in 1860. — E. H., 
P. 

Gex. Hexry Harxdex. Sword, revol- 
vers, saddle, and saddle-bag used by him 
while colonel of First Wisconsin Cavalry, 
when participating in the capture of Jef- 
ferson Davis, president of the Confeder- 
acy, near Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, ±865. 
He retired at the close of the war with 
the brevet of brigadier-general. — M. H. R., 
P. 

William S. Hamiltox. Two sleigh 
bells from a string presented by the wife 
of Alexander Hamilton to her son Col. 
William S. Hamilton, of Wiota, in. 1839. 
—E. H. 



Rt. Rev. Jacksox Kemper. Bible-mark 
used by him; sermon book presented 
to him at Philadelphia, June 1, 1831, 
and passes issued to him by Wisconsin 
stage, steamboat, and railroad lines dur- 
ing the years 1858-64. He was the pion- 
eer bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
church in the Northwest. — N. H., P. 

Charles de Langlade, Fair of silver- 
mounted duelling pistols carried by him; 
his silver seal; and a' leather quill-work 
ornamented pouch used by him for carry- 
ing his fur-trade papers. He was the son 
ct Sieur Augustin de Langlade, who mar- 
ried at Mackinac the sister of Nis-so-wa- 
quet, head chief of the Ottawa. About 
1763 father and son removed to Green 
Bay, where they became the principal 
proprietors of the soil. Charles de Lan- 
glade led the Wisconsin Indians in sev- 
eral of the many sanguinary conflicts of 
the French and Indian War, from Brad- 
dock's defeat (in 1755), to the final Eng- 
lish conquest of Canada. In the Revo- 
lutionary War he fought on the British 
side. He died at Green Bay in January, 
1800.—^. H. (See oil painting of Lan- 
glade at Braddock's Defeat, in 8. H.) 

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IxcREASE A. Lapiiam. Vasculum and 
plant press used by him in collecting 
and pressing (1836-40) his herbarium 
of between 20,000 and 30,000 plants now 
in the University of Wisconsin. Copy 
of his Supplemejit to Catalogue of 
Plants, printed in Milwaukee, Novem- 
ber, 1840. Wood-cuts employed in illus- 
trating a botanical article written by 
him previous to 1870. Case containing 
his draughting instruments. Two mod- 
els of Wisconsin Indiaii earthworks pre- 
pared by him for the Centennial Expo- 
sition at Philadelphia, in 1876. " He set- 
tled at Milwaukee in 1836. He was one 
of the organizers of the State Historical 
Society and for twenty-two years either 
its president or one of its vice-presi- 
dents. He served as state geologist, 
1873-75, and was the "father" of the 
United States Weather Bureau. He 
ranked among the most distinguished 
antiquarians and naturalists of his 
time, and was the most prominent of the 
early scientific investigators in Wiscon- 
sin. He died at Oconomowoc, Sept. 14, 
1X75.—^. H., I. H. R., P. 
Little Soldier. Pipe formerly belong- 

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ing to him. He is better known as 
"Dandy." He was a son of the Winne- 
hago chief, Black Wolf, and a cousin of 
Four Legs. His village is reported as 
being located in 1836 on Bar'aboo River, 
above the present city of Baraboo. — 
7. H. R. 

Morgan L. Martin. Beaver hat and 
plush hat worn by him. He came to 
Green Bay in 1827, was a member of the 
Michigan Legislative Council, 1831-35; 
delegate to Congress, 1845; member ot 
the Wisconsin Legislative Council, 1845- 
47; president of the second constitu- 
tional convention, 1848; member of the 
assembly, 1855; of the senate, 1858-59; 
paymaster in the United States army, 
1861-65; Indian agent, 1866-69; and 
again a member of the state assembly 
in 1873; and then judge of Brown 
County until his death, Dec. 10, 1887. — 
C. K., P. 

Simeon Mills. Percussion-lock pistol, 
and a collection of American and for- 
eign gold, silver, and copper coins as- 
sembled by him. He came to Wiscon- 
sin July 2, 1836, and was one of the first 
settlers of Madison (June 10, 1837). He 

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was clerk of the Territorial supreme 
court, and a member of the first State 
senate in 1848; was paymaster-general of 
the State troops during the earlier years 
of the War* of Secession. Long one of 
the vice-presidents of the State Histori- 
cal Society.— ii7. H., N. H., P. 

Na-ya-to-shingd (Hewho-lays-'by-him' 
self). War' club owned by him when 
chief of the Chippewa Indian village at 
Manitowoc. He died in 1838, at the al- 
leged age of over 100 years. — I. H. B. 

Heney C. Payxe. Gold-bound oak 
gavel with which, as chairman, he called 
to order the National Republican Con- 
vention at Chicago, in 1904. Brown 
leather portfolio used by him when post- 
master-general, at meetings of the cab- 
inet of President Roosevelt. His collec- 
tion of badges, worn by himself and 
others in the Republican national con- 
ventions at Minneapolis (1892), St. Louis 
(1896), Philadelphia (1900), and Chi- 
cago {190i).—N, H. 

Nicolas Perrot. Ostensorium (or 
soleil) presented by him to St. Francis 
Xavier mission at De Pere, in 1686. He 
was then commandant of the French in 

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the West. Pike and various iron im- 
plements, etc., from the site of his fort 
(1684-85) at the "wintering bluff' near 
Trempealeau. — N. H. 

Congressman John Fox Potter. Bcv/ie 
Knife purchased by him for use in the 
proposed duel with Roger A. Pryor, in 
1860. Derringer carried by him in 1860. 
Bowie knife captured from the Louisiana 
"Tigers" at Norfolk, Va., and presented 
to "Bowie Knife" Potter, May 31, 1862, 
by Brigadier-General Viele, U. S. A., as 
an appropriate "memorial of a chivalrous 
incident." Potter was member of Con- 
gress from the First Wisconsin District, 
1857-63.— M. H. R. 

Joseph Rolette. Hand-made spikes 
(forged at a blacksmith shop on the 
spot) from the frame of the first grist- 
mill in southwestern Wisconsin, built 
for Rolette by Charles Hickox at Dodge- 
ville. The establishment was known as 
the Hickox mill. Rolette was an early 
settler and fur-trader of Prairie du 
Chien.— ^. H. 

Nicholas Sexn. Obstetrical instru- 
ments used by him when beginning his 
career as a country doctor at Elmore, 

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Fond du Lac County, in 1867, Favorite 
scalpel used by this famous surgeon in 
his clinic at Rush Medical College, Chi- 
cago. Copy of a bronze medal presented 
to him in honor of his sixtieth birthday 
by the medical profession of the coun- 
try. During the Spanish-American War 
he was appointed surgeon general of 
the army by President McKinley. — JSf. H. 

Christopher Latham Sholes. Sam- 
ples of the porcelain keys used on one of 
the earliest models of the typewriter (of 
which he was the inventor) made at 
Milwaukee in the years 1866-67. An 
earlier model had brass keys, and a 
keyboard in which the keys were all on 
one level. In later models the keys were 
arranged in four banks. In 1873 his in- 
vention passed into the hands of the 
Remingtons, for manufacture. He came 
to Kenosha in 1840 arid engaged in the 
newspaper business. — N. H. 

Gex. ,Jonx C. Starkweather. Sword 
given to him by the non-commissioned 
officers and privates of the famous Mil- 
waukee Light Guard, Sept. 2, 1858. Uni- 
form coat and sash worn by him as com- 
mander of the Light Guard. Silver 

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pitclier and two goblets presented to liim 
by his staff officers . of the Ninth and 
Tenth Indiana Cavalry and Seventh 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and citizens of 
Pulaski, Tenn., Aug. 7, 1864. Silver but- 
ter dish presented by freedmen for his 
activity in suppressing guerrilla war- 
fare, Nov. 17, 1864. He was colonel of 
the Piist Wisconsin Regiment, 1861-63. 
On July 17, 1863, he was promoted to 
brigadier-general. — M. H. JR. 

Alexander Stow. Powder-horn used 
by him. He came to Wisconsin in 1845; 
was elected judge of the Fourth circuit 
and chief justice of the supreme court, 
serving from Aug., 1848, to Jan., 1851. 
Died at Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 1854. 
—N. H., P. 

James J. Strang. Bolt-plate, probably 
from a door of his Beaver Island "cas- 
tle." Strang, an eccentric young law- 
yer of Burlington, Racine County, em- 
braced Mormonism. His subsequent ca- 
reer as elder, revelaior, prophet, seer, 
and finally as "king," is one of the 
strange episodes of Western history. In 
1845 he and his followers began the 
erection of the Mormon city of Voree, 

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on the White River, in Walworth County. 
In 1847 he removed with his followers 
to Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan. — 
.Y. H. 

Moses M. Strong. Water-proof cloak 
worn by him, his leather bound trunk, 
leather saddle pouch, and a collection of 
old-fashioned household utensils from 
his home at Mineral P6int. He settled 
at Mineral Point in 1836; was United 
States attorney for Wisconsin Territory, 
1838-40; elected to the Territorial coun- 
cil, 3 842, and re-elected for four years; 
member of the constitutional convention, 
member and speaker of the assembly, 
1850, and re-elected to the assembly in 
1853; first president of the Milwaukee & 
La Crosse Railroad Co. Author of Ter- 
ritorial History of Wisconsin, published 
in 1885.— A'. H., P. 

Cov. William R. Taylor. Gourd vessel 
presented to him when elected "Granger" 
governor of Wisconsin, in 1873. — E. 
H.. P. 

Dami-l WiiiT.NEV. Ladles, 56-pound 
weight, and other jrelics of the shot- 
tower erected by him at Helena, on the 
Wisconsin River, in Iowa County, 1831-33. 

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He was a pioneer merchant and lum- 
berman, and came to Green Bay in 1819. 
—E. H. 

Asaph Whittlesey. Pair of snow- 
shoes used hy him when walking from 
Ashland, on Lake Superior, to Madison, 
in the year 1860, to represent his district 
in the state assembly. — N. H. 

Eleazeb Williams. Copper tea-kettle 
used in his home at Little Chute, Outa- 
gamie County. Neck band worn by him 
while missionary to the Oneida Indians. 
He was the reputed son of a woman of 
the St. Regis band of Mohawk Indians, 
being born about 1792; became an Epis- 
copal missionary to the Oneida of New 
York, and came to Wisconsin in 1821 as- 
agent of certain tribes of New York In- 
dians who desired to settle in the val- 
ley of the lower Fox River. About 1850 
he won notoriety by claiming to be the 
son of the executed Louis XVI and his 
queen, Marie Antoinette, and thus heir 
to the French throne. Many believed his 
assertions and a commission came to 
America, from Louis Phillipe, to investi- 
gate the claims of the pretended dauphin. 
Louis Phillipe concluded that Williams 

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was the victim of an innocent de- 
lusion, but those who knew the mis- 
sionary well stamped him as an im- 
postor. He died at Little Kaukauna, 
Aug. 28, 1857.— C. K., y. &., P. 



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